I went out to catch the Geek Comedy Tour 3000 this weekend, as part of my efforts to catch more local talent when they’re NOT doing an open mic. It was a really fun show- if you have the opportunity to catch these guys at a con or something, you totally should.  Of course, the subject matter is also near and dear to my heart, so I found it particularly entertaining.

As I listened to them, I had the beginnings of… something, maybe a bit, maybe an essay, not sure yet… forming in the back of my mind about how the male geek experience is pretty divergent from the female geek experience.  Oh sure, it starts out the same- social ostracism for being smarter than average and having, shall we say, rather more obscure tastes in entertainment and media than the average kid on the playground.  So the geeky kids tend to hang together, which sets up the big social difference between geeky boys and geeky girls later.

Unlike a boy-geek, the girl-geek has no trouble finding someone to date.  Oh sure, it won’t be the uber-hawt captain of the football team, but since there are more guys than girls spending free periods in the computer lab, the girl-geek quickly finds that there is no shortage of available young men who would like nothing better than to camp out with her for Star Wars Episode 7: Destroying Your Childhood Heroes tickets.